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The Shadow in the Garden - A Biographer's Tale (Hardcover)
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The Shadow in the Garden - A Biographer's Tale (Hardcover)
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The biographer - so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting
doubt, proving facts - here comes to the stage. James Atlas takes
us back to his childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love
with literature and, early on, found in himself the impulse to
study writers' lives. We meet Richard Ellmann, the great biographer
of James Joyce and Atlas's professor during a transformative year
at Oxford. We get to know the author's first subject, the
"self-doomed" poet Delmore Schwartz; a bygone cast of intellectuals
such as Edmund Wilson and Dwight Macdonald (the "tall trees," as
Mary McCarthy described them, cut down now, Atlas writes, by the
"merciless pruning of mortality"); and, of course, the elusive
Bellow, "a metaphysician of the ordinary." Atlas revisits the lives
and work of the classical biographers: the Renaissance writers of
what were then called "lives," Samuel Johnson and the "meshugenah"
Boswell, among them. In what amounts to a pocket history of his own
literary generation, Atlas celebrates the luminaries of
contemporary literature and the labor of those who hope to catch a
glimpse of one of them - "as fleeting as a familiar face swallowed
up in a crowd."
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